Haunting and transitional justice: on lives, landscapes and unresolved pasts

This article explores practices of haunting and ghosting after conflict-related loss. This is not to suggest a focus on the occult or the paranormal, but to use these phenomena as a prism through which to understand the intersection between unresolved pasts and the transmission of trauma post-confli...

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Main Author: Lawther, Cheryl (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 2021
In: International review of victimology
Year: 2021, Volume: 27, Issue: 1, Pages: 3-22
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